Comments | cola_fan: musical omnibus #2: hackademics

cola_fan

musical omnibus #2: hackademics

Sep 18, 2005 14:27

music festivals and conferences:

Wired is great for the strange music events. The Plug headphone music festival has almost banished acoustic listening (to small spaces close to your ears) from their festival, everyone listens through headphones and talks in chat rooms instead.
Andrew blogged the wooden octopus skull festival in Seattle. Meanwhile, ( Read more... )

the echo nest, chuck, movies, computer music, omnibus, synth, academic

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cola_fan September 21 2005, 04:05:43 UTC

Totally! BE THERE.

Hey Professor! Could you turn out the lights? Let's roll the film.

billings September 18 2005, 20:42:17 UTC

Sporking shreds?

Shredule?

It looks pretty neat to me, but it also looks pretty retarded when you name something spork instead of fork. Why spork instead of fork? Is it to indicate that, while code that FORKS is FORKING into two different possible directions, code that SPORKS is...?

Of course I am merely engaging in buffoonery. Code that sporks is clearly shreduling the sporked shred into the shreduler, where it will be appointed, assigned, or designated for execution at some point in the future.

cola_fan September 21 2005, 04:22:55 UTC

point one: excessively glib - granted

You are allowed one coined word per novel concept. They ran over their quota.

music languages since the computer cola_fan September 21 2005, 04:53:15 UTC

Here's how I see this in terms of the domain. Since early computer music, there has been a consistent abstraction with regards to these languages, the signal network of unit generators.

(Unit generators are symbolic units that take in 0..n signals, do some math and output 0..n signals. There is also a distinction between control rate data, which is slower and controls synthesis parameters such as pitch and amplitude, and audio rate data, the sounds themselves.)

a simplified breakdown

MusicN, CSound - The signal networks are fixed over a score or performance, and represented in code divided into the orchestra (the network) and score (the control data). Synthesis occurs in non-realtime, meaning you input the score and orchestra, run the compiler and wait a while.

pd, Max, MSP, Audiomulch - Synthesis is realtime, the network is your current document and control data can come from live user input or programs that pull data as synthesis progresses. The signal networks are now represented visually (in the interface rather than code), ( ... )

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cola_fan September 21 2005, 04:08:41 UTC

That's one of his primary instruments, he's skilled at it and knows its limits. Those are particularly good, they have the lush quality that similar timbre chamber music has, while still being challenging. I'll tell him you enjoyed them.

please just go... eyemjess September 21 2005, 04:35:30 UTC

ummm i stumbled upon something i'll share... www.searchlores.org or www.searchlore.org...your musical interests can be satisfied with very little efforts and as you are much more technical than i it will be even faster for you!

Re: please just go... cola_fan October 16 2005, 20:08:39 UTC

This is quite an odd site, but quite interesting as well. Thanks for the link, Jess.

V_M sluzzslazz October 18 2005, 06:20:00 UTC

Wow, you mentioned me! But just for the record, Virtual Metastacy is my friend's project (though we conceived the concept together).

Re: V_M cola_fan October 18 2005, 15:35:59 UTC

Ahhhh. Gotcha.

Welcome to lj, Andrew!